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Procedure price report · Amputation of lower extremity

Amputation of a toe at the joint with the foot

CPT 28820the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of an entire toe at the joint where it meets the foot.

Hospitals typically charge $2,922 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,513 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,929. Most fall between $884 and $5,810 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,513
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,513 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$570$1,034$2,922$4,922$8,389

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($570 vs $8,389).

How the prices are spread

$418 – $581: 80 hospitals$418$581 – $808: 112 hospitals$808 – $1,124: 138 hospitals$808$1,124 – $1,564: 125 hospitals$1,564 – $2,175: 103 hospitals$1,564$2,175 – $3,025: 141 hospitals$3,025 – $4,207: 244 hospitals$3,025$4,207 – $5,851: 199 hospitals$5,851 – $8,138: 126 hospitals$5,851$8,138 – $11,318: 97 hospitals$8,138median $2,922price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,365 of 1,513 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$418$58180
$581$808112
$808$1,124138
$1,124$1,564125
$1,564$2,175103
$2,175$3,025141
$3,025$4,207244
$4,207$5,851199
$5,851$8,138126
$8,138$11,31897

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$2,922
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.87×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,922.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $571 across 13 hospitalsME$571Vermont: median $899 across 11 hospitalsVT$899New Hampshire: median $571 across 12 hospitalsNH$571Washington: median $1,496 across 33 hospitalsWA$1,496Idaho: median $2,006 across 20 hospitalsID$2,006Montana: median $583 across 12 hospitalsMT$583North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,405 across 53 hospitalsMN$1,405Illinois: median $1,544 across 51 hospitalsIL$1,544Wisconsin: median $2,569 across 49 hospitalsWI$2,569Michigan: median $1,080 across 44 hospitalsMI$1,080New York: median $3,343 across 61 hospitalsNY$3,343Massachusetts: median $5,546 across 21 hospitalsMA$5,546Oregon: median $995 across 36 hospitalsOR$995Nevada: median $1,723 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,723Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $3,418 across 12 hospitalsSD$3,418Iowa: median $1,391 across 63 hospitalsIA$1,391Indiana: median $2,330 across 52 hospitalsIN$2,330Ohio: median $4,702 across 79 hospitalsOH$4,702Pennsylvania: median $4,173 across 59 hospitalsPA$4,173New Jersey: median $4,233 across 46 hospitalsNJ$4,233Connecticut: median $4,194 across 14 hospitalsCT$4,194Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,914 across 86 hospitalsCA$4,914Utah: median $5,007 across 26 hospitalsUT$5,007Colorado: median $2,499 across 31 hospitalsCO$2,499Nebraska: median $1,407 across 30 hospitalsNE$1,407Missouri: median $2,442 across 41 hospitalsMO$2,442Kentucky: median $1,274 across 23 hospitalsKY$1,274West Virginia: median $1,661 across 25 hospitalsWV$1,661Virginia: median $3,815 across 38 hospitalsVA$3,815Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $5,993 across 23 hospitalsAZ$5,993New Mexico: median $733 across 15 hospitalsNM$733Kansas: median $1,217 across 39 hospitalsKS$1,217Arkansas: median $1,614 across 19 hospitalsAR$1,614Tennessee: median $1,343 across 32 hospitalsTN$1,343North Carolina: median $4,310 across 35 hospitalsNC$4,310South Carolina: median $5,938 across 22 hospitalsSC$5,938Oklahoma: median $1,045 across 23 hospitalsOK$1,045Louisiana: median $2,539 across 22 hospitalsLA$2,539Mississippi: median $2,968 across 19 hospitalsMS$2,968Alabama: median $2,920 across 18 hospitalsAL$2,920Georgia: median $3,795 across 47 hospitalsGA$3,795Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,276 across 69 hospitalsTX$3,276Florida: median $4,177 across 36 hospitalsFL$4,177
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,922. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ23$5,993+105%$1,206 – $6,421
South Carolina SC22$5,938+103%$4,601 – $6,577
Massachusetts MA21$5,546+90%$2,728 – $9,825
Utah UT26$5,007+71%$4,744 – $5,271
California CA86$4,914+68%$1,590 – $8,389
Ohio OH79$4,702+61%$1,405 – $9,701
North Carolina NC35$4,310+48%$1,512 – $5,564
New Jersey NJ46$4,233+45%$3,591 – $5,855
Connecticut CT14$4,194+44%$1,000 – $6,874
Florida FL36$4,177+43%$2,803 – $9,071
Pennsylvania PA59$4,173+43%$2,098 – $6,502
Virginia VA38$3,815+31%$1,857 – $5,373
Georgia GA47$3,795+30%$2,922 – $5,810
South Dakota SD12$3,418+17%$1,709 – $3,908
New York NY61$3,343+14%$641 – $4,497
Texas TX69$3,276+12%$2,542 – $4,812
Mississippi MS19$2,968+2%$926 – $8,195
Alabama AL18$2,9200%$1,595 – $7,059
Wisconsin WI49$2,569−12%$1,421 – $3,955
Louisiana LA22$2,539−13%$1,413 – $5,303
Colorado CO31$2,499−14%$556 – $5,535
Missouri MO41$2,442−16%$736 – $6,622
Indiana IN52$2,330−20%$715 – $4,934
Idaho ID20$2,006−31%$592 – $6,877
Nevada NV11$1,723−41%$903 – $3,850
West Virginia WV25$1,661−43%$348 – $3,987
Arkansas AR19$1,614−45%$933 – $3,140
Illinois IL51$1,544−47%$638 – $5,931
Washington WA33$1,496−49%$694 – $3,363
Nebraska NE30$1,407−52%$602 – $2,880
Minnesota MN53$1,405−52%$635 – $2,833
Iowa IA63$1,391−52%$900 – $3,598
Tennessee TN32$1,343−54%$919 – $3,891
Kentucky KY23$1,274−56%$611 – $13,028
Kansas KS39$1,217−58%$610 – $4,341
Michigan MI44$1,080−63%$782 – $4,499
Oklahoma OK23$1,045−64%$798 – $5,253
Oregon OR36$995−66%$536 – $1,863
Vermont VT11$899−69%$675 – $1,419
New Mexico NM15$733−75%$490 – $3,295
Montana MT12$583−80%$261 – $1,177
New Hampshire NH12$571−80%$368 – $1,222
Maine ME13$571−80%$341 – $1,130
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $2,922.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,075$3,746$1,221 – $6,342
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access418$1,240$638 – $3,636
Ownership
For-profit174$4,350$1,826 – $9,329
Government295$1,496$715 – $3,840
Non-profit1,039$3,127$897 – $5,938
System affiliation
Part of a system1,183$3,418$977 – $5,971
Independent330$1,593$673 – $4,341

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,885
Median cash price$2,922
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

880 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,877 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,871; most fall between $799 and $5,563.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 880 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$509$1,003$2,877$4,914$8,299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($509 vs $8,299).

Of the 963 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 880 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,513 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,653 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,513
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded56
Hospitals that filed this code1,653

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Amputation of lower extremity family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Amputation Toe Metatarsophalangeal Joint.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Amputation of a toe at the joint with the foot (CPT 28820) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-28820-amputation-of-a-toe-at-the-joint-with-the-foot